Authors: Mituhiro Fukuda Bastiaan J Braams Maho Nakata Michael L Overton Jerome K Percus Makoto Yamashita Zhengji Zhao
Publish Date: 2006/09/19
Volume: 109, Issue: 2-3, Pages: 553-580
Abstract
It has been a longtime dream in electronic structure theory in physical chemistry/chemical physics to compute ground state energies of atomic and molecular systems by employing a variational approach in which the twobody reduced density matrix RDM is the unknown variable Realization of the RDM approach has benefited greatly from recent developments in semidefinite programming SDP We present the actual state of this new application of SDP as well as the formulation of these SDPs which can be arbitrarily large Numerical results using parallel computation on high performance computers are given The RDM method has several advantages including robustness and provision of high accuracy compared to traditional electronic structure methods although its computational time and memory consumption are still extremely large
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